20 Defining Comedy Sketches of last 20 years (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

Good article

Any to add?
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Sketch comedy has changed a lot since its vaudeville days.

Once confined to a stage, sketches unleashed themselves on our big glowing boxes (TVs) before lying in wait on the Internet, ready to be summoned at any moment on our smaller glowing rectangles (phones).

The past two decades have been especially defining for the medium. The Internet, social media, politics, social mores, and public discourse on race and gender have altered dramatically; sketch comedy has not only reflected that, but has also helped propel those changes forward.

I set out to make a list of 20 defining sketches that captured this sea change, starting with the year 2000. For the purposes of this list, “defining” does not mean the “best” sketches, or even objectively funny ones. What we find funny rapidly evolves, and not all jokes can stand the test of time.........

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/23/defining-comedy-sketches-last-years-rick-james-lazy-sunday/

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

biggest one not on the list off the top of my head is Key & Peele's 'football names' skit

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

Tina Fey's "Colonel Angus".

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

Funny or Die "The Landlord".

 

[Optimus Prime]

Key & Peele: Black Ice

Chappelle’s Show: Wayne Brady

“Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a birch?”

 

[Dago]

 

[vdubee]

Only part of one of my faves! Shows we can be different and still be ok.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

 

[donato]

Still think it peaked in the Hartman/Carvey/Myers etc. SnL era.

 

[Devildog]

Maybe not top 20, but I always damn near choked every time I saw the Cork Soaker sketch on SNL.

 

[Brad Mojo]

I can think of a few from The Carol Burnett Show that were defining.

 

[livefromDC]

For reference, the last 20 years would mean from 1999 to 2019.

Feel old yet?

 

[Farb]

Terry Tate, office Linebacker

 

[Brad Mojo]

For reference, the last 20 years would mean from 1999 to 2019.

Feel old yet?

Oops, totally overlooked that part. Must be my failing eyesight.

 

[livefromDC]

Oops, totally overlooked that part. Must be my failing eyesight.

Ha! Well for me I have to remind myself that 1999, which was smack dab in the middle of my college years, was 20 years ago and not 10. Damn if it doesn't feel that long ago. So my reference point is always skewed for stuff like this.